After crawling around the dead fisherman’s room, the snake searched about the mountain behind the village.  Since the Bride-snake could not find her husband in the mountain, she returned to the room where her dead husband had been.  After leaving the medicinal herbs there, she returned to the Islands of Seven Mountains.  Watching the snake swim back, the villagers talked among themselves about the dead fisherman’s wife.  The island took the form of the fisherman’s young wife in the sad drizzle of rain.

"Look at the island over there!  It has taken the form of a bride!”  The people were petrified with fright to see such a miracle in the rain.  “The snake we saw a while ago was the dead fisherman’s bride.  She has been changed into a snake like that because she went to the devil island to cure her husband’s fatal disease.”

Shedding tears, the fortune-teller told the people the whole story about the miserable bride.  Afterward, a mysterious weeping sound could be heard whenever it rained on the island.  Once a year, at the time the miserable affair happened, a gigantic snake crossed the sea to visit the fisherman’s poor cottage.

Hence, even today when the rain comes, the villagers, looking at the Islands of Seven Mountains standing side by side over the sea, wonder whether the smallest island is being transformed into the bride’s form.  They named it the Bride’s Island.

Pilgrimage to Hell

In ancient days there was a sangnom (a man of low birth) who was in debt to a saengwon (a yangban, or aristocrat, who in this case has passed the lowest state civil service examination).  The saengwon, who was both foolish and stingy, would send his servants to press the sangnom to pay his debt.  The servants sometimes pulled the sangnom by his hair so roughly that he could hardly endure the pain, but however severely he was insulted, he could not pay his debt back at once, because he was too poor.

One day the sangnom told his wife he had an idea about how to take care of the debt.  She said that she would follow her husband’s instruction.  The next morning the sangnom laid down on his back and covered himself with a white sheet.  His wife loosened her hair and stood sobbing outside the door, holding her children.  At last the servant came and saw the miserable mourning scene.  He asked the wailing woman what had happened.